Cao Fei: ‘The scenarios in many of my works have come true later’

Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart is presenting Cao Fei’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, titled Cao Fei: Testimonies to the Near Future, featuring films and installations such as Whose Utopia (2006), RMB City (2007–11), Asia One (2018), Nova (2019–), Oz (2022), and her Hip Hop series (2003–). In an interview, Cao Fei said the exhibition title reflects how scenarios in her works have later seemed prophetic, citing La Town (2014) as anticipating epidemic-era isolation. She also discussed being named to Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2026 and her collaborations with science-fiction writers, including Regina Kanyu Wang (for the exhibition catalogue), Han Song (for a 2021 UCCA commission), and Chen Qiufan. A concurrent new project at Fondazione Prada in Milan examines how agricultural drones are changing farmers’ lives in China and Southeast Asia.

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